[Yep, I spent most of my weekend covered in lights]

Just a quick note to tell you that the “Tell Andy where to go in Philadelphia” contest has now closed. I was really impressed with the entries, I think I’m going to have a pretty fun time by the looks of it, although you guys clearly have little regard for my health judging by the amount of recommendations for me to stuff my face with cheesesteaks.

I’ll assign all entrants a number and then use a random number generator to pick the winner of the main $50 gift certificate and Animals With Eyepatches t-shirt, courtesy of Threadless Select. I’ll read through them all again and decide which is my favourite entry and award them the second prize of a $25 Threadless gift certificate. Hopefully I’ll post the winners some time tomorrow.

Thanks again to everyone that was involved.

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Just a quick note to remind you that there’s just one day left to enter the ‘Tell Andy where to go and win a $50 Threadless Gift certificate and T-shirt’ contest.

All you have to do is leave a comment on the contest post and you’ll be entered into the random draw. The best comment, as judged by me, will be receiving a $25 gift certificate. A few of the comments were picked up as being spam, and I think I caught all of them but I get a lot of spam comments so its possible I missed a few of the real comments, so if you leave a comment which don’t have loads of links in I think you’ll be okay.

Oh, and if you don’t know anything about Philadelphia, and don’t want to just make something up (I will be visiting a lot of your recommendations, remember), you could tell me something cool about where you live, since I’ll be having a bit of a road trip around the US when my internship finishes.

Tell me where to go and win a $50 Threadless Gift Certificate (and a t-shirt)!

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I don’t know why I cover laFraise’s weekly releases when I don’t do the same for Threadless or Design By Humans, or the rest of the myriad of design competitions out there, I guess its because no one else really touches laFraise, probably because they’re still stubbornly ignoring American shoppers (the laFraise US store isn’t current enough to carry anything from the past few months of releases). I don’t know why they’re not given the praise that they so clearly deserve by the tee world, they consistently print some fantastic designs (Black Colors, one of this weeks designs, is particularly beautiful), get lots of great, well-known artists designing for them, and their prize package certainly isn’t to be sniffed at either.

laFraise

*Whilst we’re talking about competitions, here’s a reminder that you’ve less than a week to enter the Philadelphia contest to win a Threadless t-shirt and $50 gift certificate.

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I know that Threadless‘ recent sale gave you guys a great opportunity to grab some cheap tees, but who fancies picking up some free tees using a $50 gift certificate?

As I mentioned in a post yesterday, hopefully I will be moving to Philadelphia soon for an internship. I don’t really know very much about Philadelphia, other than that I’ll probably get in some kind of trouble from guys who were up to no good if I were to go and play basketball outside of school in West Philadelphia (on the plus side I would get sent to Los Angeles when my mother got scared), so I need advice from you guys about where I should go and what I should do when I make it to the city of brotherly Love.

To be in with a chance of winning, all you need to do is leave a comment on this page telling me what I should do when I get to Philadelphia. Simple, huh?

The winner of the $50 gift certificate will be judged entirely at random (using a random number generator), so even if you don’t know anything about Philadelphia you can still get in on the action. That said, if I get some really good suggestions then I’ll probably throw in another gift certificate to my favourite comment. Multiple entries do not increase your chance of winning, but feel free to comment as much as you want. I’ll keep the contest open to entries for two weeks, meaning that you’ve got until midnight on September 23rd (GMT) to get your suggestions to me.

*It appears I’ve had my wires slightly crossed, as well as the $50 gift certificate, the winner will receive Animals with Eyepatches, a design which recently won the Threadless loves Lollapalooza contest. For those of you that are unaware, Threadless Love’s… is the section of Threadless where design contests are based on a theme decided by sponsors. Threadless’ Loves… contests also have unusual prize packages beyond the usual cash and gift certificates that winners usually receive.

[Photo credit: Love by Lsc21]

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When I heard that there was such a thing as ‘International T-shirt Day’, I thought two things “what the hell is this?” and “it must be a publicity stunt.” Spreadshirt own the domain (hurrah for whois!), so it could be some kind of publicity stunt, and probably not a ‘real’ international day, like Christmas or Talk Like a Pirate Day (just 126 days to go!), but I know Spreadshirt love their tees, so I’m interested to see how this will go, and what will happen in June 21st, which also just happens to be the first official day of summer.
Part of it, presumably, is linked to this blog post, in which they ask you to send a picture of you wearing your favourite tee and a short story explaining why it’s your favourite tee. And the prizes that are on offer? Well, 5 people are going to win one of those massive tees in the picture above, which have lots of little printed tees on them in all the colours that Spreadshirt offer. Not exactly that wearable for most people, but still pretty cool and very limited (just 5).T-Shirtday.com
Spreadshirt’s related blog post

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Springleap is (yet) another design competition, excpet this one is from South Africa (I don’t think we’ve ever had an SA company on HYA before). You know the deal, tee designs get submitted, voted on (that starts April 1st on SL), and eventually winning designs are printed and sold (which should happen at SL in May).

The site design is pretty cool, and the prizes are decent (I’m a fan of designers being paid on a per-tee basis on top of a lump sum, even if it isn’t much per tee), and there is a focus upon community that isn’t seen in many other design competitions, but a design competition is only as strong as the talent in its community, so we’ll have to wait until April 1st to see what kind of design quality is available to be voted on.

Springleap

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